bny mellon. >>> shares are dragging basically all of technology down. alex gana is a managing director with jmp securities. he joins us on the news line this morning. thanks for coming to the phone. >> thank you ch it feels like it's trying to find legs here. what is your very near term view? >> i think the problem for apple today is we have a major component provider cirrus talking about inventory build and guiding down pretty hard for the forward quarter. they are intensifying competition. i'm not sure you're going to get a lot of near-term relief from apple. >> are they telling you anything you didn't already know or suspect, alex? >> i think the magnitude is worse than what people were thinking. because i think you're absolutely right. people were braced for a poor seasonal quarter. but the magnitude coupled with the success that samsung has in the market. it has investors nervous on this stock. >> it's amazing to look at the year to dlat losses on apple. 20 plus per cent. it's just a fluke of the calendar, perhaps. can they work their way out of th